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Topic	Gauntlet Crew Ranks 90s Horror Films - Do you like ranking scary movies?
Snake5555555555 07/03/19 12:50:24 PM #225:	Johnbobb - I definitely enjoyed this. After I was done watching, it was hard to put my feelings into words, and I think that's ultimately because as much as I liked this, I wanted more. The performances are all solid (Kevin Bacon in particular is always great) and the concept and execution were both fascinating. The ideas it presented were interesting and it definitely twisted my expectations from typical psychological horror. However, it didn't really go far enough for my taste. It sort of danced around deeper and more complex themes without ultimately saying much by the end, which is a shame, because with a little more complexity it could've been great. Karo - A group of med students obsessed with the afterlife take turns killing each other in order to force a 'near-death experience' because science. In this experiment they induce a state of clinical death on one of them, panic profusely as attempts to revive them seem ineffective, then they wake up just when all hope seems lost. Then one of the others goes 'oh golly gee, it's my turn next!' and we start all over again. You goddamn lunatics are you fucking insane? Normal people do not treat cardiac arrest as a game or hold bidding wars as to who can stay dead the longest. The lone female character in the group is subjected to incredibly sexist behavior from the male leads, who only acknowledge her existence in order to white knight for her, ask her out, try to get her in bed, or to crack jokes with each other about about the previous points. What was an intriguing concept ends up running off the rails with silly phantom children, inconclusive and confusing 'death' sequences, and lack of any real exploration of the subject matter. KBM - A wonderful concept somewhat marred by dodgy execution, courtesy of everyone's favorite hack director Joel Schumacher. There's something viscerally exciting about watching these students argue about who will dare to go under for how long, and for awhile I get quite into this movie. The characters are interesting, likable, and well-acted (with the exception of William Baldwin's Joe his acting is fine but wow is the character insufferable). The problem is that the afterlife sequences get a bit repetitive as they aren't as creative as they could have been, and the movie loses some of the potency it could have had thanks to its unwillingness to actually kill off any of its main characters. At the very least, I feel like Kiefer should have died at the end, but the movie chickens out and gives us a Hollywood ending that flies in the face of what came before it. Still, it's an entirely watchable flick, with some engaging character arcs and moments of genuine visual flair from Schumacher. --- Listen, suffering is a fact of life. Either you learn how to deal with that or you go under. https://i.imgtc.ws/2Q88rI4.gif <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:924192423] in Gauntlet C... [t:77812973]...</cite> <quote>Johnbobb - I definitely enjoyed this. After I was done watching, it was hard to put my feelings into words, and I think that's ultimately because as much as I liked this, I wanted more. The performances are all solid (Kevin Bacon in particular is always great) and the concept and execution were both fascinating. The ideas it presented were interesting and it definitely twisted my expectations from typical psychological horror. However, it didn't really go far enough for my taste. It sort of danced around deeper and more complex themes without ultimately saying much by the end, which is a shame, because with a little more complexity it could've been great. Karo - A group of med students obsessed with the afterlife take turns killing each other in order to force a 'near-death experience' because science. In this experiment they induce a state of clinical death on one of them, panic profusely as attempts to revive them seem ineffective, then they wake up just when all hope seems lost. Then one of the others goes 'oh golly gee, it's my turn next!' and we start all over again. You goddamn lunatics are you fucking insane? Normal people do not treat cardiac arrest as a game or hold bidding wars as to who can stay dead the longest. The lone female character in the group is subjected to incredibly sexist behavior from the male leads, who only acknowledge her existence in order to white knight for her, ask her out, try to get her in bed, or to crack jokes with each other about about the previous points. What was an intriguing concept ends up running off the rails with silly phantom children, inconclusive and confusing 'death' sequences, and lack of any real exploration of the subject matter. KBM - A wonderful concept somewhat marred by dodgy execution, courtesy of everyone's favorite hack director Joel Schumacher. There's something viscerally exciting about watching these students argue about who will dare to go under for how long, and for awhile I get quite into this movie. The characters are interesting, likable, and well-acted (with the exception of William Baldwin's Joe his acting is fine but wow is the character insufferable). The problem is that the afterlife sequences get a bit repetitive as they aren't as creative as they could have been, and the movie loses some of the potency it could have had thanks to its unwillingness to actually kill off any of its main characters. At the very least, I feel like Kiefer should have died at the end, but the movie chickens out and gives us a Hollywood ending that flies in the face of what came before it. Still, it's an entirely watchable flick, with some engaging character arcs and moments of genuine visual flair from Schumacher. --- Listen, suffering is a fact of life. Either you learn how to deal with that or you go under. https://i.imgtc.ws/2Q88rI4.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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